Labrador Gift. Part II Dog Toy Store

Read the first part of the story about labrador gift

My dog birthday came. While my labrador mummy was preparing the table with food for my puppy friends, labrador daddy went on a walk with me, to a gift for his beloved little puppy. I immediately led daddy to that dog toy store. And to my happiness, he didn't mind to go there. I guess, dog daddys believe in rumours not that much.

When we entered the store, I saw mister Strange Dog (that's how grown up dogs called him) at the counter. But mister Strange Dog seemed to be not angry or dangerous at all. He smiled doggy friendly at me. To tell the truth, his teeth were too big for a usual dog. Horse-alike, I can say. Yes, since that time many years gone by, and now the quality of dog stomatology became way better. But at the time, many dogs had problems with their teeth, so it did not surprise me too much.
I immedialtely went to shelves with dog toys.
- Well, labrador son? Do you want to buy a puppy gift for your birthday here? - asked labrador daddy.
I looked above. On the highest shelf stood a beautiful puppy of chocolate colour. I did not understand, of which this toy dog was. It looked like a labrador. It was the gift, I wanted to buy. A puppy had beautiful eyes, sparkling like amber stones. The owner of the dog store noticed that my attention was drawn to this toy, and barked:
- Great choice, my little labrador. What a good taste! From hundreds of dog toys, you choose to buy a puppy of chocolate colour for your birthday. You won't regret about your choice, little labrador...
Mister Strange Dog came out of the counter, to show me the puppy. For a second my eyes stopped on the paws of mister Strange. What is that? Goat hooves?! No, delirious! This can not be.
I screw my eyes up, and thought, that seeing too much of dog toys badly influenced my young mind. When I looked at the toy closely, I liked it even more. Chocolate puppy looked at me with his sparkling eyes and smiled happily.
- Daddy, I want this chocolate labrador toy for my birthday!
In a few minutes me and labrador daddy went back home, where the celebration of my birthday was waiting for me. While we were going out of the dog toy store, the owner happily waved us goodbye. He seemed laughing to me. Anyway, he was quite a strange dog.

really strange dog toy store?

I cheerfully celebrated my birthday, accompanied by my puppy friends. We played many dog games. I broke the favorite bowl of labrador mummy, which belonged to my great labrador grandfather. But my parents did not bark at me. Everything is forgiven for a puppy on it's birthday.
In the evening i fell asleep in my cosy bed, tired and happy. On the pillow near me was lying the toy puppy. At night I suddenly woke up from a sound of dog voice. I asked:
- Mum, is it you?
- No it's me, your puppy friend. Look, I am here...
Then I saw chocolate labrador toy sitting on the other side of the bed and joyfully smiling at me.
- Bark bark! Let's play a game, little doggie!
- But it's too late now. Parents don't permit me to make noise at night.
- They won't know anything. We will play outside. Such a beautiful moon shining there...
But I didn't agree.
- Listen, chocolate puppy. You are my friend, and i don't even want to ask, why are you able to speak, when you are a toy. I wanted to buy a puppy toy - and now I am happy you are with me. You know, tomorrow we will be playing all day long. I will acquaint you with my parents. They are amazing labradors. We will live together as a real dog family!
Glassy eyes of puppy sparkled devilish.
- What a stubborn dog you are! Don't you understand, I don't want to meet your parents! Get up, puppy, I want to play!
I was scared a little bit, he was no more the labrador gift I wanted to buy. This puppy seemed so small, but he was full with anger.
I tried to get up from my dog bed and ran away to my parents' bedroom. But the chocolate puppy started to swell, like one toad friend of mine, and bared his scary teeth. I found that his puppy jaws was full with sharp, crocodile alike teeth. Then I heard a strange sound. Like a siren singing from the tale The Dog Odyssey. My eyes turned glassy, and a strange song played in my head:

puppy can not sleep at night,
puppy got to play with me...
puppy plays, he does not see,
where his lost soul he can find...

Then was a failure in my memory.
I would never know, what I did that night. Later on, my parents told me, what happened. They heard an opening door noise, and led by their dog parent instinct, ran right to my room. No wonder they say, that labradors have a great intuition. Seeing, that I was not in the room, the frightened dogs went outside of the dog house.
They told me, they saw a scary scene: their lovely puppy stood on the roof and looked at the moon. I don't know, if it is a coincidence, but it was the full moon at that night. And then the labrador daddy scatted back to the house, and went up on the roof. Happily, he came in time. Otherwise, a tradegy could have happened.
In the morning I could not remember anything. Just what happened before, in my puppy room. Labrador mummy was very angry to me and daddy, because we went to buy a gift in that dog toy store without her permission.
She barked:
- All dog mothers warned me not to go with puppies to that dangerous place. They understand such things the better. Dog intuition never let us down!
As for the chocolate puppy, we were searching for him everywhere: in rooms, on the roof and on the lawn in front of our dog house. But useless. The magical toy dissapeared. Then we went to the shop of the strange dog, for exposing the animal.
My parents wanted him to appear in a dog court for performing black animal magic. But the villain ran away. The dog toy store was empty, and happily it was not anymore possible to something there. How could he pack everything so quickly and run away? Later, a friend told us, in that morning she saw a strange animal. It looked like a goat with a dog head. The goat dog, loudly knocking with hooves, ran away from city. We were sure, that it was the wizard, who pursued me and daddy to buy a puppy gift, that was an evil creature in fact.
After that accident peace reigned in our labrador county. In that space, where the dog toy store was, then opened a bakery. But I never went there. Because once I bought there a gift, and horrible memories still live in my sensitive labrador heart.

© Written by Julia Pishvanova